Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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LEFT, the three most popular waiters with the conference girls pause in eating to hit a solid note of har- mony. RIGHT, John White, freshman this year, swings a wicked brush (hairy paddle in the vernacular) between pipes at the Phi Kappa Tau house which Strasser ' s crew painted this past summer. CENTER, Bob Bullard helped the photographer get a picture of a baby skunk. WOW! BETHANY SUMMER Few of Bethany ' s students realize that there are tivo distinct and separate phases to life in Bethany; one of nine mouths duration, the school term; the other of three months, the summer season. Bethanian has alivays endeav- ored to present in it ' s page a true and compre- hensive study of the activities and events of the school term but never has it made any attempt to acquaint the readers with the Bethany they do not knoiv. Bethany in the summer. At last the veil is torn aivay, tee present a short picture story of Bethany Summers. — Editor ' s note. The forgotten man is the man who spends his summer in Bethany. When school is officially over the majority of the student body is dispersed and scattered over many states. A few remain behind. During the past summer there were eight or ten who stayed the entire three months. Their activities were many and varied. No sooner had the students left when the campus was invaded by a host of young people attending church conferences. The conferences were of a weeks duration and when one group left another took its place. Altogether the con- ferences lasted from early June until the tenth of August. During that time six of the remain- ing students worked at Phillips Hall as waiters. Their duties were simple but many. They in- cluded serving meals, washing dishes, scrubbing pots and pans, setting tables, and cleaning up the hall and kitchen. These duties took from 10 to 14 hours a day depending upon the num- ber of persons in the conference. Spare time was necessarily scarce but since 75 % of the conferees were girls from 16 to 24 years of age what time there was was used to good advant- age. When the last conference had left, each of the waiters went his way on a well earned vacation; Martha ' s Vinyard, Long Island, Cleveland, Washington, Baltimore, Everywhere, but after a week or two weeks at the most, all were back in Bethany ready to go to work on Strasser ' s gang. Some became painters at fifty cents an hour, some carpenters, some laborers, and gen- eral flunkies at forty cents an hour. No matter what the job, there was plenty of work and plenty of hours and nearly all had a nice little nest egg with which to meet the reopening of school in the fall. Until the last two weeks before the return of {Continued on Page 19) PAGE TWELVE

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AT THE TOP Conference girls were anxious that the waiters get through work in time to keep their dates so they came into the kitchen and helped the boys work their way through 1000 dishes plus silverware. AT THE BOTTOM Jim Huntsberger had his mind on a coming vacation in New York. When he dried dishes he built a replica of Manhattan. Here he jx ints out the position of Times Square with reference to the Em- pire State building. PAGE THIRTEEN